Alcohol Wholesaler Registration Scheme

Calculating the penalty:calculating the penalty

Example 1

During a compliance check, we find a business has traded without approval but it was a non-deliberate contravention that the business did not know about before we started our check. When we told them about the contravention, they agreed with us that they had committed it. This was therefore a prompted disclosure.

The penalty range for a non-deliberate contravention with a prompted disclosure is 20% to 30% of the maximum amount.

Step 1

The total reduction for quality of disclosure (telling, helping us, and allowing us access) was 70% (a)